16 May
2018
16 May
'18
5:45 a.m.
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Eric S. Raymond has a long-term plan underway to get
all man-page source
moved to DocBook or asciidoc using his doclifter program, and convincing
projects to make the switch. Unfortunately, some have. DocBook stinks
and it shows how long the project has been going that Eric chose it back
when it and XML were still shiny.
I like the manpage format! It tells me everything I need to know, in the
correct order, and it's in good old plain ASCII...
Unfortunately it seems that the youngsters of today (i.e. those with no
sense of Unix history whatsoever) have been suckled on this Whizzy-Wig
stuff.
-- Dave